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Uh-oh! ID cards in the UK...
This is bloody awful news:
(From BBC website)
Manchester will this autumn become the first city where people can sign up for an ID card, Jacqui Smith is to confirm.
Anyone over 16 in the city with a UK passport will be able to apply for a card from the Home Office.
The home secretary's speech signals her determination to push ahead with the cards, which will initially cost £30, despite opposition.
The Tories and Lib Dems want the £5bn scheme scrapped, while some Labour MPs have expressed doubts about its cost.
People in Manchester who want an ID card can register their interest on the Directgov website.
They will then be told later in the year how to get their card, which will probably involve a visit to the Manchester passport office to be interviewed and have their fingerprints and photo taken.
The Conservatives claim the Cabinet is split on ID cards, with some ministers keen to scrap them to save money.
But the Home Office says it is determined to push ahead, claiming ID cards will reduce fraud - thus saving money - and are vital to combating terrorism and organised crime.
READ MORE:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8035002.stm
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Anybody who supports ID cards are extremely foolish & intentionally or not of the police state. Its extremely foolish to really think that ID cards are going to prevent terrorism, prevent illegal immigration, prevent crime because it won't as soon as ID cards roll out so will the counterfeiting. What hasn't it occurred to anybody that terrorist groups & organized crime won't take advantage.
ID cards won't stop crime or terrorism because the majority of crime and terror come by hand of government. All of governments power is derived by exploiting the fears the those it intends to control. Deny them our fears, and begin to lose control.
hahah! Good point, Ziggy.
In fact, what's to say that ID cards won't be EASIER to conterfeit than passports etc.
Apparently the scheme is 'voluntary' at present. I mean, who the blue hell would volunteer for having their prints take?! AND pay £30 for the pleasure! hahah!
Government = Stoopid
this is just typcal of the big brother goverment i am sick of the uk goverment riding rough shot over us